Motivational Quotes

Music

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Music

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

10.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

11.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

12.

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

13.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

14.

I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

15.

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

16.

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

18.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

19.

I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

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Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

23.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

25.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

30.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

31.

A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

32.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Pavarotti, Luciano

33.

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Huxley, Aldous

34.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John

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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

40.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

42.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

45.

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

48.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas